Easy Smoothie Recipe

So apparently smoothies are a big thing for Paleo peeps.  I'm pretty sure that the smoothies I've read about online have like kale and stuff in them though. 

I'm just not there yet.

I like kale fine -- in salads, cooked with bacon in greens, etc.  But with fruit?  I'm a skeptic.

So I made up a kale- or spinach-free smoothie recipe this morning -- which is really easy to throw together.  Perfect for non-cooking people like myself.

And maybe you could have thought of it yourself, but did you?  Did you post it?  (I promise I didn't see this recipe anywhere so if someone else thought of it first, congratulations.) 

So here is my recipe...

Nut-Butter and Jelly Smoothie

Add to a large plastic cup:

• 1 ripe banana (the riper, the better)
• handful of frozen berries (I used mixed, but just a single kind is fine, too)
• 2 Tbs. coconut oil
• 2 Tbs. almond butter (or other nut-butter of your choice)
• fill the cup almost to the top with coconut milk (canned is fine, that's what I had)

Use a stick blender to combine thoroughly.

Drink with a straw.

(You could add some ice cubes before you add the liquid if you like a particularly cold smoothie, but for me on a winter morning, the frozen berries were enough.) 

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The idea behind this smoothie was to attempt to get more coconut oil in me since my chiropractor recommends six tablespoons a day (and I still can't seem to get past two); to add protein by way of the nut-butter; and to create something fast, simple and generally Paleo-friendly.